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Transferring your osCommerce application includes copying your files and database and modifying the twoconfigure.php files in includes/ and admin/includes/ folders to work with the new server settings.

The most important settings which should be modified in includes/configure.php are:

HTTP_SERVER - you should set this to your domain name, e.g. http://yourdomain.com:

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://yourdomain.com');

DIR_FS_CATALOG - the absolute path to your shop, e.g. /home/user/public_html/shop/:

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/user/public_html/shop');

DB_SERVER - you should set this to localhost:

define('DB_SERVER', 'localhost');

DB_SERVER_USERNAME - the username with privileges to access the shop database:

define('DB_SERVER_USERNAME', 'user_osc1');

DB_SERVER_PASSWORD - the password for accessing the database:

define('DB_SERVER_PASSWORD', 'oscpassword');

DB_DATABASE - the shop database:

define('DB_DATABASE', 'user_osc1');

In admin/includes/configure.php, along with the settings above, you should also modify:

DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT - the absolute path to your shop, e.g. /home/user/public_html/shop/:

define('DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT', '/home/user/public_html/shop/');

DIR_FS_ADMIN - the absolute path to the admin folder, e.g. /home/user/public_html/shop/admin/:

define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/user/public_html/shop/admin/');

Some older versions of osCommerce require register_globals to be enabled in order for the shop to function. If you get an error about register_globals being disabled, please check this article to see how to enable it.